Rejoice in What's Right with America
We Have a Constitution and a Legal System that Protect Our Freedom
We're free to speak our minds, and we're free to travel too -- to go where we please, when we please. We don't have to ask permission or explain the purpose for our trips or carry identification cards.
We're free to choose our own religions, and to convert from one to another without fear of reprisal. Our services don't have to be sanctioned and our sermons aren't censored.
We're free to choose any career we like, to work as much or as little as we want, to keep our earnings, to pass our wealth on to our children, and to contribute to any charity we favor. We're not coerced or compelled into approved occupations, with the fruits of our labor withheld or "donations" extracted forcibly from us.
We're free to raise our children the way we see fit, in our own faiths and with our own values. Our children are not wards of the state, spying on us and turning us in for ideological error.
We're free to own and use firearms to protect our families and possessions. We're not serfs and slaves dependent on masters to take care of us.
What's wrong with America? The only thing really wrong with America is that we all spend too much time harping on what's wrong. We spend too much time complaining about the few minuscule things that are wrong and too little time rejoicing in the many grand and marvelous things that are right. America is a great country, the greatest country on earth, the greatest country in the history of the world. Why shouldn't we be proud of her? Why shouldn't we be proud to be Americans?
Your children will learn in school all the things that are allegedly wrong with our country; you can be sure of that. It's up to you, however, to teach them all the things that are right. Tell your children the story of our war for independence. Recite "Paul Revere's Ride" for them. Teach them the words to "The Star- Spangled Banner," to "America the Beautiful," and to "God Bless America." Read our Declaration out loud and discuss with them the "self-evident" truths that are catalogued there, along with the list of grievances against the king. Tell them what happened to the men who dared to sign that document, how they gave everything they had for a cause they believed in. Watch "The Patriot" together, at least once a year. Review our Constitution and our Bill of Rights with your children. Make sure they understand and appreciate their liberty. That's the only way they'll keep it.
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7 Comments
Post a CommentAn interesting piece. I only wonder why outside of America citizens of other countries do not feel this way about the USA. Do you think it is perhaps the foreign policy? Or perhaps the Hitler Nazi parallel political justification of invasion of Iraq/Poland that is causing this. I have to say that in my travels and engagement with citizens of the world your sentiment is not echoed. What saddens me is that USA citizens have, as you have so eloquently stated, hard won for freedoms and today the vast majority don't turn up to even exercise this right through the ballot. That is a sacrilege!
Linea, you hit it...there is great potential, but it is being wasted. Greed has replaced a love of real freedom. What benefits corporations is more important than what benefits citizens. And to a prior post-America could-and should-do a hell of alot more for the less fortunate. A good start would be not invading them...
America & Americans have the potential to be "great," but under Bush, particularly, we're pedalling backwards at an extremely alarming rate, & if you refuse to see it & take steps to restore the country to its former potential, you are complicit in the undoing. Pay attention instead of spouting bland bromides.
I've been saying this all along. Good work!
I've been saying this all along. Good work!
And while reading them the Bill of Rights, also be sure to read to them the Patriot Act and explain how that document strips away many of those rights you first read to them. Also explain to them how how America has more foreign debt than all third-world countries combined. Explain how democracy works in a way that the man who gets the most votes doesn't always win. Explain how Americans are free from ideological terror by teaching them about HUAC and the Hollywood blacklist. Explain how Americans are free to protest the President, as long as they are in a self-contained "free speech zone" that the President doesn't have to see or hear. And, lastly explain how you can equate higher-leve education involving critical thought with watching a Mel Gibson once a year. (Which is about all any sane person could handle).
Personally, I think this is a wonderful & uplifting piece. Considering that America has done more than any other country to help the less fortunate of this world, and the fact that people are still coming here *because* of freedom and opportunity, I have to wholeheartedly agree with the author.